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An application of gap regenerator/expander precooled by two stage G-M refrigerator
The degradation of regenerator effectiveness below 10K is due to the imbalance of the heat capacity of the regenerator material and helium gas as a working fluid. One of the attractive methods to increase this efficiency could be realized by a gap regenerator system regarding helium gas property. This paper describes an experiment using pressurized helium gas as a regenerator material. A two stage G-M cycle refrigerator has been used for precooling the gap regenerator system. With this method, minimum temperature below 5K has been obtained when the precooling temperature maintained at 10K
Compact Claude cycle refrigerator for laboratory use
A Claude cycle refrigerator with a three stage reciprocating expansion engine is described. Instead of a cam mechanism, valves are driven directly by magnetic solenoids operated by means of a micro processor control system. A swash plate mechanism is used to convert reciprocating motion of the expander pistons to rotary motion. A refrigeration capacity of 8 watts was achieved at 4.5 K with the operating pressure of 1.1 MPa and flow rate of 2.4 g/sec.. An effect of overintake operation was studied. Experimental results show that the efficiency of the expander has a peak point in the region of overintake operation with constant cycle speed, which agrees with theoretical results. The electrically controlled valve system is useful to vary the valve timing to achieve an optimum condition of operation
Parisi States in a Heisenberg Spin-Glass Model in Three Dimensions
We have studied low-lying metastable states of the Heisenberg model
in two () and three () dimensions having developed a hybrid genetic
algorithm. We have found a strong evidence of the occurrence of the Parisi
states in but not in . That is, in lattices, there exist
metastable states with a finite excitation energy of for
, and energy barriers between the ground state and
those metastable states are with in
but with in . We have also found droplet-like
excitations, suggesting a mixed scenario of the replica-symmetry-breaking
picture and the droplet picture recently speculated in the Ising SG model.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figure
Recent cryocooler progress in Japan
The progress of cryocoolers and related devices in Japan is reviewed. The Japanese National Railways has developed the light weight 4 K on-board refrigerators since 1977 as part of the MAGLEV train program. Superconducting and cryogenic fundamental technology was examined which included high performance cryocooler, magnetic refrigerator and superfluid refrigeration. Space cryogenics such as the cooling systems of IR-detectors was studied. Cryocooler for special applications such as cryopump, NMR-CT and JJ devices was investigated. Compact heat exchangers, high performance regenerators and reliable compressors are investigated as a critical component technology
Deciphering cosmological information from redshift surveys of high-z objects - the cosmological light-cone effect and redshift-space distortion -
The three-dimensional distribution of astronomical objects observed in
redshift space significantly differs from the true distribution since the
distance to each object cannot be determined by its redshift only; for the peculiar velocity field contaminates the true recession velocity of
the Hubble flow, while the true distance for objects at sensitively
depends on the (unknown and thus assumed) cosmological parameters. This hampers
the effort to understand the true distribution of large-scale structure of the
universe. In addition, all cosmological observations are carried out on a
light-cone, the null hypersurface of an observer at . This implies that
their intrinsic properties and clustering statistics should change even within
the survey volume. Therefore a proper comparison taking account of the
light-cone effect is important to extract any cosmological information from
redshift catalogues, especially for . We present recent theoretical
development on the two effects -- the cosmological light-cone effect and the
cosmological redshift-space distortion -- which should play key roles in
observational cosmology in the 21st century.Comment: 28pages, 20 figures, minor revision to match the final version to
appear in Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement, vol. 133 (1999
An improved method for determining the DC magnetization curve using a ring specimen
When the DC magnetization curve (B-H) of nonoriented material is measured in a ring specimen, there is an intrinsic error due to the assumption that the mean magnetic path length is equal to the mean geometric path length. A novel method for determining the B-H curve accurately is proposed. The validity of the method is verified by experiments</p
NMR evidence for the persistence of spin-superlattice above the 1/8 magnetization plateau in SrCu2(BO3)2
We present 11B NMR studies of the 2D frustrated dimer spin system SrCu2(BO3)2
in the field range 27-31 T covering the upper phase boundary of the 1/8
magnetization plateau, identified at 28.4 T. Our data provide a clear evidence
that above 28.4 T the spin-superlattice of the 1/8 plateau is modified but does
not melt even though the magnetization increases. Although this is precisely
what is expected for a supersolid phase, the microscopic nature of this new
phase is much more complex. We discuss the field-temperature phase diagram on
the basis of our NMR data.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, published versio
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